the whole of the history of those early times. The following items from the first two newspapers of Pennsylvania give us certain phases of the life and times of our remote ancestors here in Lancaster county: The character of the commerce be- tween Lancaster and Pennsylvania in the infancy of the

The Political History and Development of Lancaster County's First Twenty Years, 1729-1749 Partisan political sentiment existed in Lancaster county at the time of its creation in 1729, the division of sentiment being on the very question of organizing the county. The econ- omical German-Swiss

our society's proceedings. At the time Mr. Samuel Evans wrote his history of our county, the assessments of several townships prior to 1750 were here, because he has copies of some of them in his book. But it is very probable that some of these lists were taken out for the printer of that work and

ITEMS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE CONCERNING LANCASTER COUNTY. In the October number of 1907, the December number of 1910, and the May number of 1913, of the proceedings of this Society, I gave installments in consecutive order of local Lancaster county news from 1719 to 1746 found in the American

harmony with the early efforts to abolish slavery in this country, among the foremost of which was the Act of Pennsylvania of 1780, our county took advanced ground on the question. The early county Quakers, German Mennonites and others felt the insti- tution wrong from the beginning, and had practically

to the land on which to build the court house and prison in Lancaster, the commissioners, of course, holding the title in trust for the county (1 Pa. Arch., p. 252). August 5th the treas- urer of the province pays into his hands the 300 pounds lent to the coun- ty of Lancaster to build the last